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What Are the Costs and Benefits of Remote Work to a Company

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From the episode: Deep dive into Remote Work with Hiten Shah

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While employees gain flexibility and freedom to work from anywhere, organizations lose the perceived control of employee's time. In order to understand his organization better, Hiten introducing a #daily-updates Slack channel, where all the employees list their accomplishments for yesterday, and the plan for the coming day. Although no one actively monitors this channel, the simple motion of creating an update helps both employees and the company to stay accountable. Remote work is still early for the most part, and every company is still figuring out how to do it right.

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